Posts about Suge Knight

This was actually released before the ODB/Wu Tang one [click here], but I just found it and it’s too good not to post. Fredro Starr talks about being offered a record deal with Death Row Records after Suge Knight and Tupac went to the Sunset Park premier, and how ‘Pac and others reacted to the offer.

For the record, the ‘Pac song on the Sunset Park soundtrack that ‘Dro mentions is the amazing classic “Pain” that was later bastardized by Ja Rule on his album Pain Is Love.

UPDATE: Thanks to Jon Peters below for pointing out my mistake, the song on the Sunset Park soundtrack was actually “High ‘Til I Die.” “Pain” was released on the soundtrack of another basketball movie, Above The Rim, in which Tupac also stared. My comments on Ja Rule’s version of “Pain” still stand though. Terrible.

This one is really interesting in a reality TV invasion of privacy sort of way. Between interview questions 2Pac was on the phone with Suge Knight, and Vibe kept filming…

Oh and if you were wondering who the “lil homie” was, it was Napoleon of The Outlawz.

Haha. Shout out to Rahim for this one. The Suge Knight Light! “Sleep tight, with some help from Suge Knight!”

Daz Dillinger has put together a tribute street album for Tupac’s birthday including some songs they did together during their time on Death Row as well as some shameless Daz self promo. The album also features Kurupt, Soopafly, Mac Shawn and more. Full cover and tracklist after the jump.

DOWNLOAD: Dillinger & Makaveli 2 – The Tribute Album

Read the rest of this entry »

HipHopStan.com sat down with former Death Row Records CEO and mogul Marion “Suge” Knight for a quick interview, and the perhaps deluded man claims he is still “running the west,” despite his total absence from the music industry for close to a decade now.

Suge says he is enjoying his life right now, planning to do some films, and working on putting out new music on his new record label; Blackball Records.

In the interview he also praised some West Coast artists like Nipsey Hussle, Glasses Malone and Jay Rock, saying he thinks they will do well, and also commention on artists such as Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy, who he thinks have been putting out good music lately.

As for his Blackball Records, he says the label will “take it back to basics” and return to a West Coast sound. As for his reality TV show, Unfinished Business, Suge is still looking for a network to pick it up.